CHAPTER 18: RIDDHIMA HAS A CHANGE OF HEART??
SCENE 1: Everyone is getting ready in the family for the marriage…..
Riddhima: *calls kabir* Kabir?
Kabir: Riddhima, i am almost done! Just give me 15 min, i am taking her down, be on a lookout near the door
Riddhima: Fine…
Dadi: Riddhima, let me go in to check if she needs anything..
Riddhima: *hold her hand* Dadi! I will take care of it! Actually she is dressing up, makeup and everything is done…just final few touch ups and she will be the mosttt beautiful bride ever!
Dadi: Ok! Tell her to hurry up!
Riddhima: Fine dadi!
Dadi leaves…
Riddhima: *messaging kabir* Are you done? Soon she will be called downstairs!
Kabir: *reply* I am done! I have even kept the letter! She is out of the room also…and she is safe! Trust me, everything is alright, now you take care..
SCENE 2: Dadi sees Riddhima in the hall…
Dadi: Riddhima, is shreya ready?
Riddhima: Yes dadi, she said she wanted to take a nap! Since she was feeling tired and also she has to sit continuously, so..
Dadi: Ok, ok, anyway there is a lot of time left, for the ceremony to begin, so nothing to worry…Beta if you don’t mind go and call Vansh, please..
Riddhima: Sure dadi…
She goes to call Vansh…
Riddhima: *knocks* Mr. Vansh, dadi is calling you downstairs…
Vansh: Riddhima, can you come in…
Riddhima: No actually, i have some…
Suddenly Vansh pulls her in…
Riddhima: Excuse me??
Vansh: I am sorry, but can you help me with this brooch…
Riddhima: *looks at the brooch* Sure…
Vansh’s pov: What are you Riddhima? Sometimes, i feel like you are very hard person to read and the next minute you act like an open book which is easy to read!
Riddhima’s pov: Vansh, you are getting ready in vain! When there is no bride itself, what will the groom do alone?!
Riddhima: I am done, i will leave….
Vansh: Thanks!
Both of them come down and vansh takes his seat in the mandap…
Riddhima’s pov: Now soon, there will be an explosion of truth, that the bride has run away! Too bad Vansh!
Dadi: Riddhima, go and get Shreya…
Ishani: No need dadi, i will get her..
She goes and comes after a while with a paper in her hand…
Dadi: ishani? Where is Shreya? Is she coming? ishani, speak something!!
Ishani: I don’t know where she is Dadi! I didn’t find her in the room, *hands over the letter* But, I found this in her room, i didn’t read it…
Dadi: What is this? *takes the letter*
” Dear Vansh,
I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there, in sickness and in health. But I won’t. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. I do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope. I am not optimistic. I am not going away because i don’t love you! I am going away because, i don’t see our relationship, getting any better in the future! I still remember, what you said, a few days back, you said ” I think i am willing to marry you, I think, its the best” I felt soo happy, but during the ceremonies, i realised you never wanted any of this! And i Really wished, that instead of “thinking” that you want to marry me, i wish you “knew”!! I will always love you, that’s why i am leaving for your happiness! BYE
From,
Shreya…
Dadi: Vansh….*she falls and sits on the couch looking devastated*
Vansh: Dadi!! Are you alright, call a doctor immediately…Dadi, are you fine?
Dadi: Are you fine?
Riddhima’s pov: I am sorry dadi, i can just imagine the pain you are going through! But i can’t let an innocent girl marry a person like Vansh! I can’t knowingly put someone’s life in danger, just like that!
Vansh: Dadi, i am perfectly alright! Trust me!
Later that day…vansh is in his room, when someone knocks..
Vansh: Come in..
Dadi: Vansh, can i talk to you?
Vansh: Yes sure dadi, and is it is about what happened earlier, don’t worry dadi, i am alright and i believe that shreya has taken a correct decision! I support her…
Dadi: I want you to get married Vansh!
Vansh: Dadi! No one is there right? Then how? And i want to shift my focus…
Dadi: With Riddhima!
Vansh: What? Riddhima?! She will never marry me dadi, even if i am the last man standing on the this earth, she wouldn’t even look at me!
Dadi: She has agreed to marry you vansh, she is ok with it…
Vansh: What?? Dadi, i need to talk to her once..
SCENE 3: Vansh meets riddhima…
Vansh: Did i hear it correctly? You want to marry me? But why?
Riddhima: Yes, you heard it right….and i said yes because…
FLASHBACK….
Dadi came to meet Riddhima…
Riddhima: Dadi, i was about to leave with the luggage after changing my dress, did you need any help?
Dadi: I do need something from you dear, but it’s a really big favour…
Riddhima: Dadi, i know you will think about me and ask….
Dadi: Will you marry my Vansh?
Riddhima: Dadi? But?
Dadi: You always told me how much you loved this family right? Will you become a part of this family? So that the respect of this household will still be intact?
Riddhima: *stammering* Yes dadi, i would like to be a part of this family…
PRESENT..
Vansh: Nahh! Come on sweetheart, though we know each other only for a short period of time, i am sure, that i know you would never accept anything so easily? Then why now? What are your reasons?
Riddhima: Reasons? I assure you that you will be the first one to know, if there were any reasons!
STAY TUNED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED SUDDENLY THAT RIDDHIMA WHO HERSELF SAVED A GIRL FROM VANSH, IS NOW WIILLING TO MARRY HIM, OUT OF THE BLUE? RIDDHIMA HATES VANSH! AND NOW SHE WANTS TO BE HIS WIFE? WHY?
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